US sales of video game consoles and software have grown 57% over the past year, completely ignoring the economic downturn of the last ten months. Costumers snapped up consoles, games and gaming accessories worth $1.7bn during March march alone, this up from jus under the billion pound mark set the revious year.
Nintedo were the most sucessful, selling 720,000 units. micrsoft shifted 262,000 Xbox 360 consoles coming in ahead, somewhat suprisingly, Sony's PlayStation 3 console, wich found just 257,000 costumers. These figures would never suggest that Americas ecominc structure is in a stae of distress.
Nintendo also lead the way in terms of games sales, with the release of Super SmashBros Brawl, which sold 2.7 million copies. Executives also claimed this was the reasdon for the huge numer on consoles they sold. I second place was Xbox 360's version of Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, with 752,000 sales.
These statistics do not seem to worry Sony, who maintain that their realtively new console's sales have doubled in the past year. the also feel that new games such as Gran Turismo 5 and Metal Gear Solid 4 would help to sustain momentum.
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